Samuel E. Cohen

Samuel E. Cohen is a partner at Gross McGinley, LLP, which has offices in Allentown, Easton, and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He also serves as co-chair of the firm's Litigation practice group. His clear and honest approach has allowed him to establish lasting relationships with his clients. He serves as a Lehigh County arbitrator and a Northampton County arbitrator.In his law practice, Mr. Cohen mostly handles cases involving business disputes, employment issues, and commercial litigation. In transactions, employment issues, product warranties, and zoning disputes, he helps individuals, small businesses, big organizations, and municipalities with innovative, efficient, and reasonably priced legal representation.Moreover, Mr. Cohen represents clients in many areas, including construction, banking, retail, media and publishing, real estate, insurance, and health care. Clients seek his assistance in civil litigation situations of debt collection and tax assessment appeals, and he has effectively litigated claims based on breach of contract, employment discrimination, and premises liability defense.In addition to representing clients in court, Mr. Cohen often advises businesses on risk management and ways to avoid lawsuits. To compliment his private practice, Sam serves as Assistant Solicitor for Lehigh County, where he represents the county in litigation matters across its many departments. He was selected for inclusion in the Lehigh Valley Business Forty Under 40 list in 2019.Mr. Cohen obtained his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and earned his Juris Doctor from the Suffolk University Law School in 2006. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania.Actively affiliated with the legal community, Mr. Cohen has memberships in the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Bar Association of Lehigh County, the Northampton County Bar Association, and the Donald E. Wie and Barrister’s Inn. He serves as a committee chair of the Lehigh Law Journal and as a member of the Zoning Hearing Board for Upper Milford Township.